Cryptolaemus are often called mealybug destroyers because of their voracious appetite for mealybugs, but they also eat aphids, immature scale and immature whitefly. They look like small ladybugs with black bodies and orange heads and tails. Each container includes 25 live adults. Gardeners simply mail in the postcards or register online to have their insect orders shipped to their doors at no extra cost.

Beneficial nematodes destroy more than 230 different kinds of soil-dwelling and wood-boring insects, including Japanese beetles, cut worms, wire worms, weevils, white grubs, fungus gnat and flea larvae, and subterranean termites. Nematodes are completely safe for people, pets and the environment, and are compatible with other beneficial insects. Each container includes seven million of these microscopic organisms. Gardeners simply mail in the postcards or register online to have their insect orders shipped to their doors at no extra cost.

The Encarsia formosa is a parasite of the greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum, a pest of many plants in indoor and outdoor gardens. Greenhouse whiteflies are typically found on poinsettias, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other plants that grow fairly close to the ground. Each container includes 1,000 eggs. Gardeners simply mail in the postcards or register online to have their insect orders shipped to their doors at no extra cost.

About one quarter the size of a ladybug, Delphastus is a small, shiny black beetle that feeds on several species of whitefly, including greenhouse, sweetpotato (silverleaf) and avocado whitefly. If whiteflies are not present, they will also feed on spider mites. Both the adult beetle and larvae eat whitefly eggs and larvae. Each container includes 25 live adults. Gardeners simply mail in the postcards or register online to have their insect orders shipped to their doors at no extra cost.

Green lacewing larvae are known as aphid lions because they can devour as many as 1,000 aphids per day. They remain as larvae for up to 21 days, making hearty meals of mealybugs, spider mites, caterpillars, thrips, leaf hoppers, whitefly larvae, a wide variety of moth eggs and just about any other soft-bodied pest. The adult green lacewing feeds only on pollen, but it will immediately begin laying eggs. Shipped as eggs; 1,000 in an order. Gardeners simply mail in the postcards or register online to have their insect orders shipped to their doors at no extra cost.

A favorite good bug and alternative to chemicals, ladybugs eat aphids, mealybugs, scale, leaf hoppers, various plant eating worms and other destructive soft bodied pests. Most effective when released at sundown because they don’t fly at night, ladybugs keep eating until the bad guys are gone, laying their own eggs in the process. Each container includes 1,500 live ladybugs. Gardeners simply mail in the postcards or register online to have their insect orders shipped to their doors at no extra cost.

Predatory mites are adult mites that hunt and kill pest mites, particularly the common spider mite. They are shipped live and ready to destroy pests, controlling pest populations without the need for chemical pesticides. Best used at the first sign of an infestation, only 2 to 5 adults per plant or 500-2,000 per tree are necessary. Each container includes 2,000 live adults. Gardeners simply mail in the postcards or register online to have their insect orders shipped to their doors at no extra cost.

Receive this six-hook Counter Display free when you order at least four cases of Orcon Mail Backs, the convenient, hassle-free way to offer your customers beneficial insects. Gardeners simply mail in the postcards or register online to have their insect orders shipped to their doors at no extra cost. The Counter Display is also available for purchase separately.

Trichogramma are effective destroyers of caterpillar and moth eggs, including the eggs of bollworms, tobacco budworms, codling moths, corn earworms, alfalfa caterpillars, gypsy moths, cutworms and tomato hornworms. Trichogramma lay their eggs inside the caterpillar or moth eggs. When the trichogramma hatch, they feed on the caterpillar or moth eggs, then emerge as adults to continue the cycle. Each container includes 4,000 eggs (three containers per order). Gardeners simply mail in the postcards or register online to have their insect orders shipped to their doors at no extra cost.